Vehicle-tongue attachment.



No. 747,601. PATENTED DEG. 22, 1903.

' D. A. GILLESPIE.

' VEHICLE TONGUE ATTACHMENT.

4 APPLIQATION FILED ooT.z4, 1903. No MODEL.

` UNITED STATES Patented ecen-lber 2,2, 1903.

PATrsrr FFICE.

VEHICLE-TONGUE ATTACHMENT.

SPEGFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,601, dated December 22, 1903. Application filed October Z4. 1903. Serial No. 178,429. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID AUGUSTUS GIL- LESPIE,a citizen of the United States, residing at Stamford, in the county of Jones and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Tongue Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combined riding and walking coltivatore, plows, listers, and similarv implements, and has for its object to produce an attachment whereby the mounting or dismounting of the operator will not affect the draft or impose additional burden or annoyance upon the draft-animals; and the invention consistsin a standard for attach ment to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms for connection to the harness at the animals neck and serving to receive the thrust of the tongue when the burden is changed by the act of the operator in mounting or dismounting.

The invention further consists in a stand-1 ard for attachment to the draft-tongue and provided with an extension member adjustable longitudinallyin the standard and having lateral arms for connection to the harness at the necks of the draft-animals.

Other novel features of the invention will appear in the annexed description and be specifcally pointed ont in the claims following.

The improvement herein disclosed is designed for attachment to the draft-tongues of the various forms of agricultural implements-such as cultivators, listers, sulkyplows,and the likeupon which the attendant may ride while operating them or behind which he may walk,as preferred,and itis found that in implements of this general character,where the body is u'sually poised upon two bearingwheels, the addition to or removal therefrom of the Weight of the attendant so greatly alters the center of gravity as to seriously aifect the draft and impart an additional burden upon the draft-animals... To overcome this difficulty,it has been the custom hereto, fore to arrange such implements so that the attendant is required to ride continuously or walk continuously to prevent this additional burden. Y

To provide -means whereby the attendant may Walk or ride at pleasure Without affecting the draft is the object of the present invention, and in the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,

ment applied. Fig. 2 is a sectional eleva.

tion of the attachment enlarged. Fig. 3 is a perspective Vdetail of a portion of the adjustable member.

A conventional form of draft-tongueis represented at 10 and a pair of horse-collars and hames at 11 12, positioned relative to the tongue as in use upon the draft-animals. The body of the implement to which the tongue is attached is not shown; neither are the draft-animals shown,as they form no part of the present invention, which is applicable to any form of tongue or harness connections.

The improved device consists of a standard 13, attached, as by a foot portion 14, to the tongue 10. The standard member is preferably tubulark and is provided With an eXtension member 15, also preferably tubular and slidable longitudinally within the standard. The standard 13v is provided with a plurality of transverse apertures 16, through which -a stop-pin 17 is designed to be passed to support the member 15, andby'adjusting the pin in the holes 16 it is obvious the member 15 may be set at any point desired. The upper end of the member 15 is provided at its ends with slidable rings 24 25, limited in their movement by confining-loops 2O 21, these rings for detachable connection, as by straps 26 27, to the fastening-straps 28 29 of the haines or to some other portion of the collars or hames.. By this simple means a iieXible connection is secured between the collars and hannes and the arm 18, as shown.

The lower end of the member 15 is provided with oppositely-disposed transverse recesses 22 23, so that when the member 15 is set upon the pin 17 by the recess 23 the arm 18 Will be held transversely of the tongue 10 or in operative position relative tothe haines or collars, and when set upon the reeess22 the arms will be held-longitudinally of the tongue or ont of operative position. f

When the team is unhitched, the member 15 will be set with the arm 18 longitudinally of the tongue, so that the attachment will not ICO interfere with the removal of the team, and when the team is again hitched up the ends of the arms can be very quickly set in position and strapped fast to the hames or collars and without adding materially to the Work of the driver. Then when the driver mounts the seat of the implement the sudden change of the centerof gravity caused thereby, which would otherwise throw the forward end of the tongue upward, is absorbed by the attachment and transferred to the collars and haines and distributed over the necks of both of the draft-animals and does not materially affect the draft. The attachment is thuslaterally movable relative to the haines and collars, so that the usual lateral vibrations of the tongue willnot be communicated tothedraft-animals. By this simple arrangement the operator can mount and dismount as often as required without producing any deleterious effect upon the draft or increasing the burden upon the draft-animals or contribute to their discomfort in any manner.

In the foregoing description is shown the approved form of the invention, but is not necessarily limited thereto, as the parts may be modified and altered in minor particulars without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages, and I reserve the right to make such alterations and modilications as may fall Within the scope of the claims.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim isl. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for attachment to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms for connection to the harness of the draft-animals, substantially as specified.

2. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for attachment to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms for connection to the harness above the necks of the draftanimals, substantially as specied.

3. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for attachment to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms, and iexible connections between the harness of the draftanimals and said arms and slidable longitudinally thereon, substantially as specified.

4. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for attachment to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms having rings slidable longitudinally thereon, and flexible connections between said rings and the harness of the draft-animals, substantially as specified.

5. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for attachment to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms having rings slidable longitudinally thereon, keeper-loops upon said arms and embracing said rings, and iexible connections for attachment to the harness of the draft-animals, substantially as specified.

6. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for connection to the draft-tongue and provided with lateral arms forconnection to the harness of thedraft-animals, and means for adjusting said standard vertically, substantially as specified.

7. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a standard for connection to the draft-tongue, and an extension adjustable longitudinally of said standard and provided with lateral arms for connection to the harness of the draft-animals, substantially as specilied.

8. An attachment for vehicles consisting of a tubular standard for connection to thedrafttongue, and an extension slidable in said standard and adjustable longitudinally therein and provided willi lateral arms for connection to the harness of the draft-animals, substantially as specified.

9. An attachment for vehicles consisting of atubular standard for connection to the drafttongue and provided with a plurality of spaced transverse apertures, a stop-pin for alternate engagement with said apertures, an extension member slidable in said standard and having lateral arms for connection with the harness of the draft-animals, said extension having oppositely-disposed transverse recesses for alternate engagement with said stop-pin, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID AUGUSTUS GILLESPIE.

Witnesses:

J. A. WARD, W. A. MEHR. 

